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Desert Lady Diaries

Dawn Davis Voiceover and Podcaster

Desert Lady Diaries: 30-minute conversations with women who live in the desert. Find out why they came, what they do here and why they stay.

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DLD | Cathy Snodgrass | Ep 125

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/04/07

Cathy Snodgrass was born and raised near Galveston, Texas. Her first experience with desert was watching western movies. In 1976, driving through what was then Joshua Tree National Monument, Cathy rounded a mountain and found herself looking down on the 'quaint' town where she and her then Marine husband would be stationed. Cathy knew immediately this was home and made it a condition of her second marriage that they never leave 29 Palms – that was 40 years ago. Cathy will tell you, “I’m very

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DLD | Sharon Davis | Ep 124

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/03/24

Artist and founder of Earth House Studios, Sharon Davis creates colorful art and installations at her home in Morongo Valley. Sharon and I bonded as two Jersey girls, so you might get hungry listening to the beginning of this episode. Sharon left NJ for the first time in in 1974 and came to California, landing in Huntington Beach, moving on to Moreno Valley, then Palm Springs. After that she's moved between the east coast and Texas, Virginia and Maryland, with a few stops back to California in

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31:42

DLD | Robin Kobaly | Ep 123

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/03/10

Like the roots of the honey mesquite and creosote, Robin Kobaly's desert roots go deep. Her immediate family moved to Morongo Valley when she was 2 years old. At six, Robin had an extraordinary experience with desert wildflowers - an experience she was hesitant to share, being part of a scientific community, fearing her work would not be taken seriously. In her studies of plants, Robin also came to appreciate the ways in which Native Americans used plants dyes for basket-weaving, textiles and

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32:08

DLD | Carol 'Dusty' Seddon |Ep 122

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/02/25

Carol 'Dusty' Seddon's first desert experience was in and around the Mojave near Apple Valley in the mid-90’s accompanying a group of friends from an Orange County college, who were coming out to perform archeological digs. Dusty immediately fell in love with the feel of the desert – the dry air, the quiet and so much different than what she’d know in the suburbs. On these digs they mostly found tools, stones used in cooking, and maybe bits of pottery. In October of 2005, returning from a

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DLD| Mary Addison Hackett | EP 121

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/02/11

First trained as a painter, artist Mary Addison Hackett also practices in photography, video and other time-based projects. Mary Addison first experience with desert was on family vacation – three of them – from her hometown of Nashville to the Grand Canyon, Tucson, Mexico and other natural desert wonders along the way. Even then, Mary Addison had a camera and to document her trips. Though impressed with the natural and cultural aspects of these desert trips, Mary Addison doesn’t recall having

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DLD| Cynthia Marie |Ep 120

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/01/28

Born in New Jersey and raised in New York's Hudson Valley, Cynthia Marie loves to drive cross-country - she's done it six times. On one of those trips, she found herself nearly out of gas and calling Roy's in Amboy, CA, asking them to keep the pumps open for just a bit longer so she could gas up and make it to Joshua Tree for the night. As is the desert way, the obliged. Still working in graphic design, Cynthia went to art school to study Printmaking. The school required their sophomores to take

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DLD | Happy 2020 | Ep 119

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2020/01/14

Here we are at the start of another new year where, as with life, change is the only constant. And it snowed in the desert! A quick 15 minute episode welcoming you back and highlighting what to look for as the podcast launches into it's third year. Happy 2020!

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35:43

DLD| Ask the Host |Ep 118

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/12/10

For this episode of the podcast, listeners were invited to send in one question they wanted me to answer. Here's a sampling of some of the questions answered in this episode: "What makes Dawn Davis produce the Desert Lady Diaries?" "When and how did you become a voice over artist?" "Would you talk about the process of how each episode gets made from start to finish?" "Why do folks here keep the hood of their car raised while it's parked?" "Did you move here to be close to the park?" And

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DLD| Julia Ehret |EP 117

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/12/03

On being in retirement bliss It was a lunch hour trip to the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, where Julia first experienced Joshua Tree. The exhibit was the result an annual photographic expedition to Joshua Tree National Park. Finding out it was an annual event, Julia put it in her heart to attend and take photos the next year - and she did. During that weekend, Julia says her soul shifted and, “I felt really connected to the area for reasons I couldn’t explain.” After a number

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29:10

DLD| Cheryl Kandel Gimson |EP 116

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/11/26

Cheryl's first experience with desert was in the early 80’s, driving to Palm Springs for Spring Break with a friend - and her friend’s grandmother drove them around Palm Springs to see the sights. After that, Cheryl started coming out to the desert on her own, not really knowing about Joshua Tree until a former boyfriend suggested they visit a place he used to rock climb. On arrival, Cheryl was so taken with the place, she asked him to stop the car, so she could get out and take in the unique

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DLD| Kathleen Lowndes |EP 115

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/11/19

Kathleen Lowndes is proof that attitude is everything. Kathleen's first experience with desert was on a family move from Upstate NY to Inglewood California via the infamous Route 66 – Kathleen was eight years old. She recently found a black and white photo from 1955 of her family under a Joshua tree in Kingman AZ. After Kathleen's mother died in 1998, Kathleen grieved for a year - sitting in bed, knitting and crocheting. After grieving, her roommate had a stroke and decided to take their

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DLD| Mary Sojourner |Ep 114

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/11/12

Imagine driving into the desert, a place of wide open spaces where you can see for miles, and not being able to breathe. This was Mary Sojourner's first experience with desert, somewhere between Parker, AZ and 29 Palms. Mary had moved west in 1985 from Rochester NY ‘to write and fight for the earth'. It was Edward Abbey’s ‘Monkey Wrench Gang’, which spoke to her loud and clear. In 2007 Mary felt Flagstaff changing – gentrification as we know it today was happening. Mary was living in a small

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DLD| Dawn Rowe |Ep 113

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/11/05

Dawn Rowe's first experience with desert was driving to Las Vegas for a Marine Corps Ball. Alan, her late husband, needed something for his uniform and decided they would drive the back way to Vegas, passing the Marine Base in 29Palms where he would pick it up at the PX. Driving up the Morongo grade and then down into the valley, Dawn remembers her first thought was "Who lives out here?” And now she does – falling in love with a community where she's become a very involved and active citizen, all

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DLD| Janelle Pietrzak |Ep 112

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/10/28

Janelle Pietrzak's first experience with desert came while driving cross country from Philadelphia, to a new job in LA. Traveling with her partner, Robert, it was July and they made a stop in Marfa, TX, then on to Joshua Tree for two nights – most of which was spent at an aquatic center in Palm Desert (40 miles away from Joshua Tree) to escape the heat. Janelle has always working in textiles and even though she spent 10 years in the fashion industry doing fabric sourcing, she knew as soon as she

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DLD| Patti Brown |Ep 111

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/10/21

Patti Brown wisited Yucca Valley for the first time in 1989 to meet, who would become her future mother-in-law and real estate mentor. That first trip Patti felt like she might be going on adventure that she wouldn’t be coming back from and her first impressions of the desert were that it was barren and somewhat far removed from what she considered her ‘normal necessities of life.’ It was very different from the lush green she'd grown up around in Northern California. After a number of visits

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DLD| Jane Spider Fawke | Ep 110

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/10/14

SMLXL Born in England, Jane 'Spider' Fawke grew up watching American Westerns at a Saturday morning program near where she lived. It wasn't John Wayne who captured her attention, but the beautiful vistas of Monument Valley in the background. Growing up poor, Jane gravitated to the fashion scene in Paris after graduating from the Royal College of Art with a Masters in Fashion & Textile Design. After some encouragement from a friend, Jane moved to New York. Jane came to America after 10 years

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DLD| Patty Domay |Ep 109

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/10/08

Patty Domany exemplifies the term 'entrepreneurial spirit'. Patty was introduced to the desert by her Los Angeles neighbors, who had land in Landers. After spending a number of weekends with them and driving the desert roads to find a place of her own, Patty had a brief conversation with a 'Landroid' over coffee one day at 'Johns', now known as La Copine, who was a 'caretaker' for a local cabin whose owner had passed. Patty reached out to the owner's son and, after a bit of negotiation, got a

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DLD| Susan Lang |Ep 108

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/10/01

At eight months old, after being born in Hollywood, Susan was brought to her mother’s burnt homestead cabin in Pipes Canyon. The family first lived under the stars and later in an Army tent. Susan was raised in upper Pipes Canyon – in what is known today at the Wildlands Conservancy. She attended a one-room schoolhouse, collected bottles for coins from Hollywood cowboys in Pioneertown and set pins at the original bowling alley there. Walking from school, Susan would walk through the movie sets

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DLD| Karmolette O'Gilvie |Ep 107

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/09/24

Karmolette O’Gilvie, born and raised in Houston, Texas, has lived in 29 palms for 27 years. She and her husband of 38 years moved to 29 as part of his military career. Karmolette's first experience with desert was in California. She and her husband were stationed in Camp Pendleton and discovered 29 Palms by riding up to visit other military families. They immediately noticed the night sky, the peacefulness and low crime. Over the years, Karmolette has witnessed many military folks come here to the

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DLD| Shana Rhodes |Ep 106

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2019/09/16

A native of Wisconsin, Shana Rhodes says she didn’t feel the connection she was hoping for in Portland when she decided to move there. Intrigued by a documentary about dancer Marta Beckett, who landed in the Mojave desert under interesting circumstances and spoke of the wild horses and amazing sunsets, Shana said to herself, "I have to see this place". She packed her camera and paints and drove to the Mojave to see Death Valley for a two week exploration. Like Marta, proprietress of Amargosa

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